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Registered charity · Manchester

W G S Trust

W G S Trust is a registered charity (number 505207) based in Manchester, governed by 10 trustees and chaired by Lord John LEE. Latest income £862k (2025). Source: Charity Commission register, updated 25th October 2026.

  • 10 trustees
  • Income £862k (2025)
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Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.

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About

What it does
Education/training
Where
Bolton, Bury, Manchester City, Oldham and more
Registered
1976

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£862k£519k
  • 2024£1.4m£979k
  • 2023£1.0m£869k
Earlier years
  • 2022£1.0m£1.8m
  • 2021£977k£875k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Charitable objects

(A) THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE EDUCATIONAL WORK OF THE SCHOOL. (B) CHARITABLE PURPOSES (WHETHER EDUCATIONAL OR NOT) OF OR ASSOCIATED WITH THE SCHOOL. (C) THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION IN ANY PART OF THE WORLD.

Board analysis

Board DNA

How this board is put together, from Charity Commission trustee records and Companies House - deterministic, no AI.iBoard compositionCounted from the dated Charity Commission trustee register: the current board only, past trustees excluded.

10 trustees on the board

5.8y median 5y
average tenure
12y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

8.9y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (7)

Portfolio (3)

2
company-linked trustees

Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.

Education/training 10The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 2Arts/culture/heritage/science 1Environment/conservation/heritage 1

Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.

Finance 3Arts and leisure 1Education 1

Succession forecast iSuccession forecastThe number of board seats likely to open in the next twelve months - summed across the board from each dated trustee’s tenure - and the profile worth recruiting next. From the filed record, deterministic.

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Income v spending, filed accountsiIncome v spendingTotal gross income and expenditure from filed annual returns, Charity Commission, last 5 years.
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
incomespending£862k latest income · income exceeded spending in 2024 and 2025
ReservesiReserves12 x free reserves / annual expenditure, from the Part B annual return. The sector median is computed across all Part B filers in the same income band.

120.0 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 4.0 months · was 94.2 in 2021

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EmployeesiEmployeesHeadcount as filed in Part B annual returns, per financial year. Shown exactly as filed; year-on-year figures may be filed on different bases, so a comparison is only shown when the filings are plausibly comparable.

Sources

Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.

Record details
Registered charity number
505207
Status
Registered
Governing document
DECLARATION OF TRUST DATED 5 MAY 1976 as amended on 09 Sept 2025 as amended on 27 Mar 2026
Contact on the register
01612241077 · finance@wgs.org
Edition
Register edition compiled 25th October 2026
Labels
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